♥ letters to a young poet.

you are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you,

as much as i can, dear sir, to be patient towards all that is

unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,

like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very

foreign tongue. do not now seek the answers, that cannot be

given because you would not be able to live them.

and the point is, to live everything.

live the questions now.

perhaps you will then

gradually,

without noticing it,

live along some distant day

to the answer.

rainer maria rilke.

{all images via sail to the moon}